Back Office Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Back Office
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 70 64
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +38
Contract jobs citing Back Office 1 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.13% 0.32% 0.91%
As % of the General category 0.22% 0.41% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £654
25th Percentile - - £659
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.85%
75th Percentile - - £691
90th Percentile - - £696
Scotland median daily rate £550 £400 £650
% change year-on-year +37.50% -38.46% -10.34%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

Back Office falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 460 492 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 58.30% 78.47% 70.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 254 347
10th Percentile £301 £210 £156
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% - -
75th Percentile £552 £538 £559
90th Percentile £650 £625 £663
Scotland median daily rate £470 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +1.08% +3.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 12 36
10th Percentile £17.65 £18.79 £13.38
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £23.77 £25.09
Median % change year-on-year +156.65% -5.27% +28.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £37.17 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £58.58 £65.38
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £20.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% +11.11% -4.46%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Back Office relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Back Office job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Back Office
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Back Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Back Office

Back Office
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Back Office.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Back Office

Back Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle